Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam and Nashville Mayor Karl Dean speak with reporters after a press conference announcing the launch of “nashvilleAchieves,” a program to provide free community college and technical school education to Metro Nashville high school seniors. “We started in Knoxville, like I said, five years ago, and then we went to other places where there were programs that were sort of like it that had started,” Haslam said. “It truly is a case of being able to raise the money to do it, because you don’t want to make that promise to that high school senior or junior that you can have two years of school free, unless you can deliver. And I think [getting the program started in Nashville] was the case of enough people, and finally the mayor’s leadership, saying ‘alright, we can make this work here.'”